Modelling Steps Specifications

1. Learning Time
Learning time is very short (<30 min)

Build mechanism by clicking and dragging.

Modelling Features
- Open, closed or multiple loop mechanisms are treated identical
- Element types include :
beam, slider, gear, belt
spring, damper, friction (translational and rotational)
- Design Wizards to automatically generate often-used mechanisms

Input Motion
- Multiple inputs can be defined independently
- Various standard input motions available
- Arbitrary functions can be defined in tabular format
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Analysis Results
2. - Nodal position, displacement, velocity, acceleration
- Angles, angular velocity and acceleration
The Ultimate
- Driving torque/force, reaction forces, required driving torque, ...

Results Display
- Unlimited number of variables can be displayed in x/y plots
- Any variable can be plotted against any other variable
Mechanism Designer
- Two different scalings can be used in one graph

Mechanism Display
- User-taylored animation of mechanism
- Path, velocity hodograph, evolute, centrode, ...

Optimization Module
View path and velocity hodograph - Function and path optimization
- Combination of Evolutionary Algorithm and Simplex Method.

CAD Interface
3. Import/Export of DXF-data

System Requirements
Any PC running Windows

Plot driving torque and bearing forces

that result from inertia effects.
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Engineering Software
SAM lets you design, analyse Full-featured toolbox and pull-down menus
makes the design, analysis and optimization
Multiple independent inputs can be defined
as a combination of standard input laws,
Just in case you get lost - which is
very unlikely - we have provided
of any 2D-mechanism a piece of cake. such as linear, cycloidal and polynomial. extensive help facilities.
and optimize mechanisms
within minutes.
It's the ultimate tool for any engineer involved in
conceptual mechanism design, offering powerful design,
motion/force analysis and advanced optimization.

Zero Learning Time

No specialistic knowledge is required due to Design
Wizards and the CAD-like mechanism editor, which lets
you define, modify and delete mechanisms by clicking
and dragging with the mouse.

Unique Modelling Approach

SAM’s unique theoretical foundation, developed by the
University of Delft (Netherlands), crushes the problems of
traditional mechanism programs. Open, closed or multiple
loop mechanisms and even the most complex
configurations, including planetary gear trains, can be
modelled with ease, using the library of basic elements
(beam, slider, belt, gear, spring, damper and friction).

CAD Interface
The DXF import/export facility lets you exchange data
with your CAD software.

Analysis Results
Once a mechanism has been designed any motion or
force quantity can be calculated (e.g. angles, positions,
displacements, velocities, accelerations, reaction forces,
required motor torque/force, driving power, ...)

Optimization Module
A global exploration of the design space based on an
Evolutionary Algorithm in combination with a local Select the motor based on Track the path and velocity Determine reaction forces Plot any variable against time or any other
the calculated driving hodograph of any number and choose the proper variable and combine an unlimited number
optimization based on a Simplex Method allows you to torque and driving power. of moving points. bearing. of functions into one plot.
further improve the performance of your design.

What do the users say ?

"SAM has become an important tool in my daily engineering practice.", "... straight forward, comprehensive and very effective.", "No unnecessary and confusing features."
What do the journals say ?
"SAM is a very useful mechanism design program ..., the price can't be the problem !" (Mikroniek - Journal of the Dutch federation on precision engineering)
SAM reached two successive finals of the "European Academic Software Award". This is what the expert jury says :
"SAM is a robust and versatile software program with an excellent user-interface, which makes the program very easy to operate".